Paul McCartney confesses after splitting from the Beatles.

British musician Paul McCartney suffered severe depression following the breakup of the Beatles to the point that was given to drink for a while and considered retiring from the world of music, he said in an interview with BBC radio. "I was very depressed. Anyone would. It was a separation of my lifelong friends," he said in the interview with the "Mastertapes" program BBC Radio 4.

"I did not know whether to go in music, had destroyed me," admitted McCartney, who is now 73 years. "So I turned to drink." At first he felt wonderfully confessed, but after a while no longer worked. "Suddenly no longer amused me, not working," he says shakily. His then-wife Linda was the one who encouraged him to found the band Wings. "I wanted to go back to the top." The beginnings were however bumpy. "We acted in universities and worked hard to fill the halls of the cities. It was funny, because shortly before had filled stadiums".